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No outrage over this as I'm figuring that it's a the same color on both sides.
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CLEVELAND – The family of a 12-year-old boy fatally wounded by a Cleveland police officer said surveillance video of the shooting shows that if the officer had not acted so quickly the youngster would still be alive.
The video made public on Wednesday shows Tamir Rice being shot within 1½ to 2 seconds of a patrol car stopping near him at a park in Cleveland on Saturday. It shows the boy reaching in his waistband for what police discovered was a pellet gun that shoots non-lethal plastic projectiles. He died the next day.
Every one of 10K plus deaths each year due to drunk driving 'could have been avoided'. Of course it could have been avoided. So what else in new?
A pellet gun is considered a firearm in places like NJ and a 'pellet' gun or pistol requires the same checks and medical records search and fingerprinting as a pistol that shoots rimfire of centerfire rounds.
Modern 'pellet guns' can have the same muzzle velocity as a 22 short cartridge and are capable of killing. A guy shot his wife with a pellet gun accidently while shooting at squirrels...he killed her with a pellet gun.
Are we talking pellet guns 22/177.5mm or was it an airsoft.
Again the cops are arriving at a playground where in their mind there are children and a maniac with a gun. the cops are certainly thinking slaughter like the Amish or CO or CN school killings.
Too bad all around, so sad but situations like this are getting more common as senastional crimes of the insane are committed and covered endlessly by the media who often gives a step by step how to for the next sicko.
Every one of 10K plus deaths each year due to drunk driving 'could have been avoided'. Of course it could have been avoided. So what else in new?
A pellet gun is considered a firearm in places like NJ and a 'pellet' gun or pistol requires the same checks and medical records search and fingerprinting as a pistol that shoots rimfire of centerfire rounds.
Modern 'pellet guns' can have the same muzzle velocity as a 22 short cartridge and are capable of killing. A guy shot his wife with a pellet gun accidently while shooting at squirrels...he killed her with a pellet gun.
Are we talking pellet guns 22/177.5mm or was it an airsoft.
Again the cops are arriving at a playground where in their mind there are children and a maniac with a gun. the cops are certainly thinking slaughter like the Amish or CO or CN school killings.
Too bad all around, so sad but situations like this are getting more common as senastional crimes of the insane are committed and covered endlessly by the media who often gives a step by step how to for the next sicko.
maniac with a gun?
Umm... no.
the dispatcher never said a word about a slaughter, shots fired, etc.
what fun is a gun as a kid if you can't point it at other kids and say bang bang?
cmon.. don't lie. We all played cowboys and indians and cops and robbers as kids... I have never seen a kid with a toy gun NOT point it at someone.
the whole point of having a toy gun is to point it at people... anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Exactly! Same here; I and my siblings had toy guns; heck, all the kids in the neighborhood had them! Even the ones that actually made noise from the roll of caps. (quite a bit of mis-firing there, though, haha). Of course we pointed them at each other! How else were we to know if our opponent 'killed' us?
These people are just trying to blame the parents now because they know that kid was killed in cold blood and was innocent.
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